#experience

Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate of hostility and are unable to talk about the work they do. Yes, despite all the odds, survivors of ritual abuse are beginning to speak out about their experiences, and some people, mainly in voluntary organisations, are beginning to listen to them and support them. [Published 2001] ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #false-memories #healing

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. ↗

— John Abizaid

#experience #hardest #know #our #own

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#learn #learnt #nothing #only #the only thing

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#dead #experience #ghosts #life #night

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#everything #experience #improve #keeping #little

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#convenient #described #distinguish #experience #kinds

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. ↗

— Woody Allen

#death #experience #impossible #objectively #still

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#about #approach #body #building #buildings

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#bills #experience #good #good teacher #sends